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You cannot reason someone out of something he or she was not reasoned into.

— Genghis Khan (For what it matters for who one is likely saying this to)

Wow what a fucking ghoul. Like there are so few words here that this pile of human garbage deserves and every single one of them is vastly underselling the sheer level of malice this poor excuse for humanity is owed. What an incredibly new low for this failure of evolution to hit and it's painful to know that we're still lightyears from the bottom this sack of shit can reach. Wow, I think at this point I wouldn't be surprised for him to take a literal shit on the grave site of these people.

Distrowatch doesn’t research anything and cries foul without second thought because Meta is evil

But it's not Distrowatch's job to verify an opaque censorship process. Meta is the one who created their filters and their filters are not open for public review. So it is entirely incumbent for Meta to handle the matter.

Distrowatch is correct to cry foul because that's literally all they can do. It's not like they can suggest a patch on github or something.

We have to remember that black box logic is wholly owned by the author of the logic. If it ain't working, then yeah, cry foul, there's no additional research to be done. That's literally the entire point of obfuscating logic in a service, to ensure that nobody else can review the internals.

Meta was completely in the wrong. Distrowatch called them out on their fuckery. That is exactly how the system is supposed to work when a company blackboxes their shit.

Facebook support (person making around $3.5 per month in some third world country) doesn’t know difference between specific Linux distro and Linux itself, tells Distrowatch that Linux is now banned

Very likely. Run a shit company, get shit results. Distrowatch running with "Linux is now banned on Facebook" is not a result of lack of research, it's the result of a company that just gave up on giving a fuck.

Our standards for companies have really fucking eroded over time and boy oh boy do CEOs eat that shit up. Meta has a systemic failure on-going in their company to which the C-Staff do NOT care one bit about. This episode is a manifestation of those failures. Meta has to up their fucking game here.

This notion that Distrowatch should have.... That's like saying someone who cut their mouth on glass in their McDonald's burger is to blame for not first checking their burger for glass. The glass shouldn't fucking be there in the first place. Customers have a reasonable expectation that a company isn't a dumpster fire and it isn't incumbent on the customers to ensure they aren't stepping into a goddamn disaster zone.

I just really need people to understand, we have got to upper our expectations of companies. Because every time we let something like "oh well Distrowatch should have known they were talking to a complete moron", we are letting these asshats who are currently enriching themselves on the United State's taxpayer's dime, get away with it.

Meta was fucking up badly and Distrowatch was letting everyone know in medias res how Meta was fucking up. This is 100% Meta fucked up. Don't want $3.50/mo employees giving shit answers? Likely a good way for Meta to solve that is to NOT have fucking $3.50/month employees. It's a pretty clear strategy for them to consider. Till then, they're likely going to be handing out bullshit answers that contain no sense of logic and we ought to fucking call them out on it.

We live in everyone is dumb timeline

I'm not going to have this, "well people should have known better." We ought not excuse Meta for this monumental fuck up. This is theirs to own. Everyone cannot randomly research every line of bullshit that's pandered off by companies. There is just no time for that non-sense. If Distrowatch says "Meta told us Linux is banned" and provides the email to back it up, then until Meta says otherwise, that should be taken as the gospel of the company. If Meta thinks that it shouldn't have gone the way it went, then Meta needs to fix their fucking hiring policies.

WE HAVE GOT TO STOP EXCUSING THESE PEOPLE. They are NOT going to act better if we give them even a single centimeter.

I get what you are saying, but this isn't Distrowatch's thing to reevaluate how stories hit the front page. Meta fucked up every step of the way. And for a company that's pulling down a seven digit multiple value to what Distrowatch pulls in a year. Meta can fucking figure it out because they have access to a ten million fold more resources.

That's just my two cents on this explanation.

The firing on the 21st was the Aviation Security Advisory Committee. Which is plane hijackings and bombings. But Musk did “friendly” pressure the Michael Whitaker to step down. Mostly because Musk was still upset about being grounded because his rocket broke up over some Caribbean Islands.

So no direct effect, but all the recent firings in the FAA are likely to have had knock on effects, that might have led to this. DC is a crazy busy airport. Maybe this was bound to happen. But there’s always the current chaos going on that Trump is making that’s just adding to the pile.

I’m not going to put direct blame on the President but I’m totally going to go with, fucking around with agencies have effects, it affects people who need to put 1,000% of themselves into their job. The President seriously needs to get a fucking handle on this upheaval he’s causing. These people need to go back to giving their undivided attention to their job. Otherwise more people are likely to die.

I will also quickly cancel the student visas of all Hamas sympathizers on college campuses, which have been infested with radicalism like never before.

Wow, nothing says freedom of speech like telling folks to not expect it if they become a citizen. Like typically you put on your best on for guest, but I guess the United States is now at the "get the fuck out" stage of encouraging young engineers to the country.

............Except if you're willing to be subjected to a work visa.

I mean it's honestly telling everyone who we really are here. We don't want you unless you're willing to be a wage slave. I mean President is free to do that, but damn that's really sending a message there.

NASA announced the mission to retrieve them in December.

If anything, this really speaks volumes about Grandpa in the White House not knowing this already as it a pretty big deal on the news for about a month when we were all bashing Boeing. But some might have missed it under the Boeing assassinating people memes.

But NAH grandpa, we already knew the schedule.

Handed down by U.S. District Judge Loren L. AliKhan for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Case is filed before DDC as 1:25-cv-00239 Brief and prayer for relief here. The official order isn't even up yet, this whole thing is moving at light speed. Parties are to file before the Court Feb. 3 no later than 11 am EST.

UPDATE: Here's doc13 from the DDC with the order. I knew they'd get it out tonight, it just takes time to get that physically banged into the system.

ALSO PART OF THE SAME UPDATE: Word is that the NSF Director, Sethuraman Panchanathan, is telling folks to just ignore the Judge. Hmm.... Anyone want to ask any of the Judges on the DDC about contempt charges? But in all fairness likely guy just wants Sauron's gaze off his back. I'm pretty sure EOP staff close to Trump are frothing over the chance to rip NSF into tiny shreds of paper.

Presumptive OMB Director Russ Vought is hot to test out his take on the 1974 Impoundment Control Act, which has been that the law in full is unconstitutional. I figure this is their first step towards getting the law in front of SCOTUS. They are absolutely itching to push on how the current court feels about "power of the purse". And like I said, Vought has kept no secrets. He absolutely believes that Congress can write checks, but the President can pick when to cash them or not, as an intended check on "the relentless spending by Congress."

This guy is literally gunning for some Congressional power. Let's see how well that plays out. For all we know, the cucks in Congress will let Trump's OMB do it.

Yeah this “proposal” violates literally everything about the Constitution.

This is just exile but with more words, which is not allowed under the immunities clause of the US Constitution.

Every person has rights to exercise due process within the several states, exile explicitly removes this.

this means deepseek is based on an openai model?

It doesn't sound like it is. It sounds more like it's hallucinating which DeepSeeks has a really light end fine-tuning. But who knows? While their stuff is Open Source, no one has yet to test it and see if they can reproduce the results DeepSeek got. For all we know this is just a Chinese con or the real deal. But not knowing how you landed into this point of the conversation it comes off as a context aware hallucination.

It knows about openai and it being a LLM but it's mixed up self identity in specific with identity in general. That is it is start to confuse LLMs and ChatGPT as meaning the same thing and then trying to wire back this bad assumption to make sense again.

Again, who really knows at this point? It's too new and it being in China, there's likely no way to verify these people's claims until someone can take what they've published and made a similar LLM.

This is so silly.

Trump: I'm going to put a 100% tariff on your goods if you don't start building them here.

TSMC: Yeah, we're doing just that next year. We're already fabbing them there in the US.

2026 rolls around and the final part of TSMZ in AZ is complete

Trump: I'm such a fucking genius.

And Republicans will eat this shit up.

Copenhagen-hosted DistroWatch says it has tried to appeal against the Community Standards-triggered ban. However, they say that a Facebook representative said that Linux topics would remain on the cybersecurity filter.

Nope, this one isn't ignorance, it's actual malice. They fully intended to start blocking Linux topics.

When you take this and pair it with what Larry Ellison just recently said:

AI will ensure "citizens will be on their best behavior"

There tends to be a pattern forming that I really don't want to draw because I like tinfoil on my head.

Hur, hur, folks will speak about "DeepSeek won't let me talk about June 3rd, 1989"

That's not really the point nor why investors are bailing.

Investors are popping bubbles mostly because they already knew nVidia and the AI craze was overvalued. There just wasn't a hard case for making the short sell.

That's where DeepSeek comes in, not because of what they offer, but because of how they did it. nVidia has posed the market that the ONLY means towards the "bright AI future™" is via their advanced chips. Chips mind you, that China does not have access to.

Well guess who has a pretty advanced model for a country that's not supposed to have the chips to do that? So one of two things is going on AND it plays well to our AI short sellers.

1. China is indeed somehow getting those chips even though they aren't supposed to, which means vendors like Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, etc have Chinese competition and that went so well for American companies last time they had to compete with China.
2. nVidia is a big fibber, and we don't actually need their super deluxe chips to get advanced models, meaning team green is overpricing their hardware.

It's one of these two situations and it's THAT, that had investors finally getting that sweet, sweet orgasm of calling bullshit on a market leader. Now the science is still out here. DeepSeek put out a lot of information and open sourced their code on how they went about building their LLM. So, science doing what science does best, there should be some repeatability to what DeepSeek did. And there's plenty of folks around who have the setup to attempt it. So eventually we should see SeepDeek soon enough or whatever.

So if we start seeing SeepDeek, Zuckerbot 5000, and so on. Then it's number two that's likely true, which means nVidia is going to be hurting. Now if we don't see any of that coming out, well then arrows start to point to number one. nVidia isn't hurting too much, but boy oh boy will the vendors not like seeing some of that inventory going to people it shouldn't be going to. If there's one thing American Companies hate, it's competition when there shouldn't be any.

That's the thing with FeepPeaks here. It isn't that your social credit score will hit the hunny pot for dear leader Xi Jinpoobear. It's that someone has successfully given the required red meat to the autist that have been chomping at the bit to short the fuck out of team greenbacks. That's the bigger story here. It's that sly pandering to the retards of WSB to do what they do best in spite of the recent "US superiority for meme coins and Presidential rug pulls."

Now in the end if number two does pull true, it's a game changer for how nVidia was planing to do this "AI will suck your fucking dick if you buy the top shelf silicon". What DeepSeek does isn't a golden goose here, it's still a bit slower than <>, what it does do is get the job done for about the same number of kilowatts coming into your setup.

Put another way, nVidia's top tier card gives you the full service, cups the balls, gentle humming, no teeth, all the way to the base. The "Shit we Sell to the Chinese™", is like the person who spits in their hand once and tries to get the job for the friend done as fast as possible like they were trying to break up asphalt on the Interstate with a jackhammer on cocaine. DeepSeek just showed that you can get the Chinese Bullshit to lick the balls a bit, get some actual stroking in, and use actual lubricant. Still not the full service, but vastly better that the hawk tauh that nVidia was telling folks the bottom tier would get them, which nobody was really liking the idea of.

That's what DeeperPeaks here is putting forward. It isn't a final product, it's a method, a method for others to build on to take on all those vendors out there telling you that their fancy five star Swedish call girl from nVidia powers their advanced fancy you cannot live without AI model. DeepReeks is telling you that the bottom tier is that nerdy girl from all those 90s movies that if you just let her hair down and take off her glasses, well suddenly you've got a hottie. Yeah, she's still awkward as fuck, but not awkward in that way where she gives you a "Roman salute", so you might get your lemonade stand LLM model to actually make you some cash.

That's the thing here, not the lack of squishy Chinese people from the late 1980s. If you want you too can build one using MeekPeeks that tells you everything about tanks and the human body's inability to carry one.